Lotus to produce 25 customer F1 cars

[CNR]

http://www.skiddmark.com/2010/08/09/lotus-to-produce-25-customer-f1-cars/




Lotus announced today in California plans to produce an F1-derived car called the Exos Type 125.If you can get past the clunky name you’ll be happy to hear the Exos features a 3.5L Cosworth GPV8 that has been detuned to produce 650bhp with a 10,300rpm redline (10,800rpm when push to pass is activated). As the car just weighs 650kg this means the approximate 1000bhp/ton figure should make the Exos the quickest toy on any track day



if the green is the color of lotus why are the blue ?


http://i38.tinypic.com/2mdkyyu.jpg

[Saint Devote]

Lotus looks to be spreading themselves wide - time for an implosion countdown perhaps?

[wmcot]

Anyone have a price on these machines?

[Cooper_S]

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/251835/


Autocar (UK) are reporting them as £650,000 each

[Retro Formula 1]

It's ambitious, I'll give them that.

Top marks for initiative.

I think for my money though, I would just buy an old GP2 car.

[Marshall]

Wonder if this is a way they can get F1 parts tested and shook down without actually running an F1 car

[turismo6]

Not a bad looking unit... i wonder how big those rims are....

It will be interesting to see it in "Any livery they want, including Lotus's iconic JPS, Camel and green and gold liveries."

[Easy Drifter]

And just what is anyone going to do with them?
Go club racing?

[DazzlaF1]

And just what is anyone going to do with them?
Go club racing?

Im sensing yet another junior race series, or perhaps the beginning of A1GP's resurrection?

[Sonic]

Im sensing yet another junior race series, or perhaps the beginning of A1GP's resurrection?

Oh goody. Another series to dilute the talent pool :rolleyes: It used to be a motorsport ladder, now its a poxy Motorsport pyramid.

[ioan]

Not a bad looking unit... i wonder how big those rims are....


Those are F1 sized wheels like the wheels used this season.

[CNR]

http://www.motorsportforums.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=829878




Smith likens the Exos Club to a baseball fantasy camp, only this pricey organization gives members “the closest experience possible to living the life of an F1 star.” Of course, buyers can skip the events and have the car shipped home for use at track days—to the intense envy of everyone else in attendance.

[VkmSpouge]

And just what is anyone going to do with them?
Go club racing?

An incredibly expensive track day car by the looks of it.

[call_me_andrew]

I suspect this is a ploy for in-season testing.

"No, we're not testing our F1 cars, we're just testing these cars we built for a spec series that just happens to use F1's technical regulations."